Honest Canadian Souvenir Shop Sign
Nico Luchsinger
trying to make sense out of stuff
August 2011
Where the mountain meets the sea
This is what you get when you rent a "small car" in Canada
Le Vieux Port, Montreal
What does this sign mean?
Breakfast at Eggspectation, Montreal
They have 12 variations of Eggs Benedict!
The Trojan T-Shirt
What a great campaign idea: German non-profit organization EXIT, which is helping neonazis willing to leave the movement, handed out t-shirts at a rock festival by the extreme right that featured an imprint saying "Hardrock rebels". After washing the t-shirts at home, however, the revealed a different slogan, reading: "You can do what your t-shirt can - getting rid of neonazism".
Here's the whole story (in German).
Brokers with hands on their faces
Great photoblog to accompany the coverage of what is currently happening: The Brokers with Hands on their Faces Blog.
On using real names online
Every statement you make on Google Plus or Facebook is persistent and strongly attached to your real identity through your name. Both services allow you to change settings to make your statements more or less public, which solves some problems. However, participating in public life on the services requires attaching your name to your statements. On the boulevards and town squares of Facebook, you can’t just say, “Down with the government,” with the knowledge that only a small percentage of the people who hear you could connect your statement to you. But the information is still being recorded, presumably in perpetuity. That means that if a government or human resources researcher or plain old enemy wants to get a hold of it, it is possible.
Very interesting short comment by Alexis Madrigal on the discussion around Facebook and Google+ requiring their users to us their clear names (and deleting profiles that violate this rule).
